Ontology
MBA
Allen Mouse Brain Atlas Ontology
The hierarchy of adult mouse brain regions used by the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas and Common Coordinate Framework, packaged as an OWL ontology by the BICAN community.
Source & access
- homepage atlas.brain-map.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download raw.githubusercontent.com HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
bioportal: ABA-AMB
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)2: BioPortal, Bioregistry+3
- Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)2025-10-29 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
- Recency2025-10-29 → 11.9 months (≤ 1 year)+5
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (dated git tags)0
- Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
- Time since last activity1.0 years → 4 × max(0, 1.0 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 27/48 · earned 34/100 = 34/100 → grade E
Community adoption 2
- Allen Brain Atlas
Source region hierarchy
Curated by SchemaScope - BICAN
Mouse brain region annotation
Curated by SchemaScope
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History & changes 2 runs
Metrics across runs
| 27 Oct 2026 rubric v3.5 | 26 Oct 2026 rubric v3.4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 34 | 32 |
| Findable | 3 | 3 |
| Accessible | 12 | 12 |
| Interoperable | 8 | 8 |
| Reusable | 4 | 2 |
| Quality | 0 | 0 |
| Maintenance | 5 | 5 |
| Adoption | 2 | 2 |
| Penalty | 0 | 0 |
| Imported vocabularies | 0 | 0 |
| Reused by | 0 | 0 |
Newest run first. Highlighted cells changed since the run before; hover to see the earlier value. A rubric change alone can move points.
- Reusable: 2 → 4 (+2)
- Score: 32 → 34 · rubric v3.4 → v3.5
- Evaluated version: v2025-07-04 → 2025-10-29
Provenance
Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | atlas.brain-map.org | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Artefact header (version IRI) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 96ec731, latest tag v2025-07-04) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC carried forward |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
Run 2026-10-27T21-58-30Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.5 · entry.json · run snapshot